Preventive
Medicine
Clinical
Preventive Services
•Clinical Practice
Guidelines - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
•Guide to Clinical
Preventive Services, 2006 - Recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Disease Management
•Medical
Homes: The Unsung Solution for Quality Health Care - AFP - November 1,
2005
•Supporting Self-management
in Patients with Chronic Illness - AFP - October 15, 2005
•Personalizing
Prevention: The U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative - AFP
- January 1, 2005
Immunizations/Vaccinations
•The new meningococcal
conjugate vaccine - PGM - June-July, 2006
•CDC Releases
Report on Preventable Measles - AFP - December 15, 2005
•Guillain-Barré
Syndrome Reported in Recipients of Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine - December
1, 2005
Organizations/Resources
•Child Immunization Support Program
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
•Group on Immunization Education
(GIE) - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
•Guide
to Community Preventive Services: Vaccines - Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
•Institute
for Vaccine Safety - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
•MeningococcalDisease.com
•National Coalition for Adult
Immunization - National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
•National Immunization Program (NIP)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
•National Network for Immunization
Information (NNii)
•National Partnership
for Immunization (NPI) - "Promoting Immunization Across the Lifespan"
•National Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) 1-800-338-2382
•Refusal
to Vaccinate Form
•Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS) 1-800-822-7067
•Vaccine Information Center at Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
•Vaccine Information
Statements (VIS) - National Immunization Program (NIP) - Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
•VaccinePlace.com - "Search.
Know more."
•www.immunize.org
- Immunization Action Coalition
•www.vaccineinformation.org
- Immunization Action Coalition
Periodic
Health Examinations
•Summary
of Recommendations for Periodic Health Examinations - AAFP - August 2002
Preoperative
Examination
•Preparation of the
Cardiac Patient for Noncardiac Surgery - AFP - March 1, 2007
•Preoperative Cardiac
Risk Assessment - AFP - November 15, 2002
•A Common
Sense Approach to Perioperative Evaluation - AFP Editorial - November
15, 2002
•Preoperative
Evaluation - AFP - July 15, 2000